The Medical Freedom Channel

“Take a slow deep breath, then exhale just as slowly. Can you take fewer than 10 breaths a minute? Research suggests breathing that slowly for a few minutes a day is enough to help some people nudge down bad blood pressure. Why would that brief interlude of calm really work? A scientist at the National Institutes of Health thinks how we breathe may hold a key to how the body regulates blood pressure — and that it has less to do with relaxation than with breaking down all that salt most of us eat. Now Dr. David Anderson is trying to prove it, with the help of a special gadget that trains volunteers with hypertension to slow-breathe. If he’s right, the work could shed new light on the intersection between hypertension, stress and diet.” [editor’s note: For some reason, Fox considers this “news”! But maybe the NIH is actually just now discovering what spiritual folks have known for centuries. - SAT] (07/31/06)